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• I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Haunting, Theme

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• The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

  Galen

  Careers, Together, Messages

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• But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.

  Adam Duritz

  People, Records, Lasts

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• In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

  Kate Morton

  Retrospect, Becoming, Seems

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• Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

  Jack Dee

  Responsibility, Tv Shows, Joy

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• I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

  Johnny Vegas

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

  Max Weber

  Writing, Achievement, Pieces

  Max Weber, David S. Owen (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.55, Hackett Publishing

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• One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Havens, Shocked

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

  David Benioff

  Hero, Dies

  Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.

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• I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

  Kristin Hersh

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Sometimes I can be walking down the street, or riding a bus, and suddenly I see somebody who remind me of somebody I know back home, and I close my eyes and find myself thinking of the sea, or the taste of grafted mango, or the smell of saltfish frying, and then I come back to myself and open my eyes and realise where I am.

  Caryl Phillips

  Home, Eye, Thinking

  Caryl Phillips (2009). “In the Falling Snow”, Harvill Press

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• The water is this marvellous blue. It’s so blue that once you see it you realise you’ve never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, it’s not blue. This, this is blue. It’s a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.

  Niall Williams

  Thinking, Blue, Sea

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• I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

  Jenny Agutter

  Patience, Doubt, Paper

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• We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

  Anita Moorjani

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Perfect

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• The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Creativity, Data, Looks

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• All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

  Jim Henson

  Control Of Your Life, Persons

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• The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Unique, Self

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• Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand.

  Maria Callas

  Real, Thinking, Rocks

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• The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.

  Clive James

  Art, New York, Believe

  Clive James (2013). “Snakecharmers In Texas”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

  Mark Twain

  Mad, Intriguing, Moments

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• Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Self Love, Agendas, Live For Yourself

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• I also have that desire to blurt stuff out, but I've learned I can't do that. Not when you realise the whole world is listening. That's why perhaps I look so uncomfortable in interviews at times.

  Kristen Stewart

  Listening, Desire, Looks

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• If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Differences, Wish, Might

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• Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

  Joe Galuvao

  Rugby League, Australia, Hug

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• You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Perception, Evolve, Grows

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